Trump dodged the issue, counterattacked, subtly threatening the pope: “I’d say, ISIS wants to get you ... ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican.”

Trump pivots: “I’m gonna have to scare the pope.” He “better hope that capitalism works, because it’s the only thing we have right now ... a great thing when it works properly,” though “right now, capitalism was not working properly in the U.S. because of overregulation of industry.” Then another pivot, as Trump again dismisses the question with another non sequiter: I don’t “believe the Pope is actually opposed to capitalism.”

Oh so wrong, Donald, the pope is against everything you stand for. Everything. Pope Francis is leading a global revolution against capitalism. The pope is very clear: Your GOP-style capitalism is destroying the world ... its increases inequality, “the root cause of all social ills in the world” ... capitalism is a climate-killer ... and free-market capitalism, trickle-down economics and today’s out-of-control consumerism are a failed ideology, a formula for disaster that rejects God, disdains ethics and lacks a moral compass.

Bottom line: Trump totally buys into the GOP’s blind self-destructive dogma, and when it comes to climate-science denialism Trump is just another head-in-the-sand Republican Luddite kow-towing to Big Oil and the Koch Empire. Listen to his hypocritical double-talk:

“I’m a huge believer in clean air, I’m not a huge believer in the global warming,” warns a Trump tweet. “Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!” Why? Because the hoax was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.” He even demands Al Gore give back his Nobel Peace Prize. Who’s the real hoax?

Trump’s approach to global warming policies mimic Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s, a narcissistic puppet who compares his own denialism with Galileo, the 17th century scientist branded a heretic. Yes, Trump agrees with Cruz, toes the GOP party line, seeing all environmentalists as “global warming alarmists, equivalent of the flat-Earthers.”

Trump’s policies are in line with the goals of all GOP’s senators bankrolled by Big Oil-Koch Bros donors who would love having their myopic climate science “hoax” lies hard-wired into the Republican Party election platform.

Face it, folks, Trump is a hard-line capitalist as well as a billionaire Republican elitist who believes profits, net worth, earnings, jobs and GDP are vastly more important to achieving his self-serving goal of “Making America Great Again” than protecting either the environment or the American middle class that’s been stagnating for a generation.

The fact is Donald Trump is even more a Big Oil booster than George Bush and Dick Cheney ever were, two oil men who started the Iraq War for oil and for eight years added trillions in new debt for America. When the chips are down, a President Trump will be giving Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Conoco whatever they want, just like Bush/Cheney, while offering very little help or incentives for alternative energies. Here’s more proof of what you better expect from a President Trump.

A couple websites, Ontheissues.org and ClimateProgress, quote candidates on a wide variety of policy matters. Here’s how Trump really is totally backing the GOP party line when it comes to the accelerating war between capitalism and global warming :

Trump has a “vendetta against wind energy,” even fought “the planned construction of an offshore wind array in Scotland,” because it “would impact the views from a golf course he was building.”

Salon.com warns: Trump’s “golf courses are environmental disasters.”

All this is bad news to environmentalists. ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm says, “Based strictly on what’s he’s said, a President Trump would not be good for the climate. Trump’s comments have been indistinguishable from other high-profile conservative candidates.”

And yet while many believe Trump would tear up any United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreement, Romm speculates that Trump’s likely to “honor not only the UN climate deal but also the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.” Why? “If there is a breakthrough climate deal in Paris in December,” even though it “won’t solve the climate crisis ... it will enable subsequent agreements to do so.”

Conversely, imagine the worst case scenario: “If there were a Paris deal and the United States simply torched it ... President Trump and the United States will be blamed for whatever catastrophic climate change subsequently occurs. We would be the ones who ripped the tourniquet off what had stanched the bleeding.”

Romm’s bottom line: “I’m not saying Trump would be a good president for climate change or clean energy. There is no evidence of that in any of his buffoonish words.” And yes, “we need a Churchill right now, not a P.T. Barnum. But whatever else one can say about Trump, he doesn’t blow up good deals, especially ones critical to maintaining his personal brand.”

President Trump will turn America into a GOP money-making corporation

Trump and his fan-base are treating the GOP primary like a business deal, a merger, an executive-search effort to pick a new CEO for Pepsi, Target or Walmart. Except we’re a democracy, not a “USA Inc,” another deal-making corporation whose responsibility is making money for their shareholders, executives, insiders, and bankers.

But that is Trump’s strategy. That’s already happening to America! That’s how far right the GOP has driven our nation. Trump’s simply exposing and accelerating the risks and the truth, pushing weak competitors aside. Trump’s fan base is frustrated with their party and government leaders. Bernie Sander’s fan base is equally frustrated with Democratic leaders, as well as everything Trump and the GOP stand for.

Yes, both parties are in disarray, leading to a great new moral war, with Sanders and Pope Francis fighting for the people, against a powerful conspiracy of the GOP, Big Oil, capitalists and businessmen like Donald Trump, who believe they’re going to “Make America Great Again” ... by making themselves richer. No moral compass, just more money. That’s the deal, live with it.

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